Making the unseen visible?
Lately I have been interested in Radio Frequencies in and around us. You cannot see them but they exists. The Radio and TV must be getting their information from these waves. So they must come into your home from somewhere.
If you could see them they might not look exactly like this animation below but they will have an electrical field and a magnetic field associated with it.
Then I thought, “would not something like this, with a electrical and magnetic field in it coming into the home be heading straight for the electrical objects in the home rather than the brickwork and the wooden table. If this is true, then anything metallic in the home is a potential aerial?, right, or a potential listening device?”
So lets just take the TV for starters: because of the coils and electrons zipping away in them, they will make a great docking station for an incoming Radio Frequency to couple itself with the TV. Then what?
OK, if the TV does not pick up this signal and play it on the screen or hear it on the speakers, then to find out if the signal had docked or not, I will need a vibrating surface to monitor this radio signal: so the glass TV screen it is. Like if you shine a laser beam on a window it will pick up conversations behind the window. This is a well known common fact. Much more difficult to do than to just point a transceiver in the direction of a home and get it into something than can be turned into a listening device.
So test it out: Not like I had anything to do last weekend what with the Dahlia’s all planted out in the garden, laundry done, home a bit messy but this test is a little more exciting. Can my TV be a potential listening device?
So I stuck one of those microphones that pick up vibrations from a flat surface on the screen (as seen on TV – below). I coiled its wire so it can be used to pick up a radio signal. I connected the microphone to a simple recorder. On the left is a transmitter, sold as one of those speaker transmitters that you use on your camcorder so you don’t have to walk around with a cable when filming. The significant fact about this transmitter is that it transmits in the hearing range. The transmitter transmits at 80 to 12500 hertz’s. We hear in the range of 20 hz to 20,000 hz. I don’t hear this signal that is transmitted is because my ear is not designed to pick up electromagnetic waves but to pick up pressure sound waves that are also travelling at the same frequency. So for me to hear this signal the TV together with the microphone needs to “translate” it for me so I can hear what it is.
So I plug the transmitter to my computer. I put on a CD that I am familiar with so I will recognise the speech if anything is picked up. I switched on the TV and got a news channel on. The transmitter was placed in another room: so the signal had to go through a wall before getting to the TV. Remember that this is just a simple transmitter that powers up on a couple of double A batteries. You cannot expect it to send a signal from the other side of town or another country, like the signal that comes to your mobile phone. Or the signals for your TV that come from ?? and ?.
And I get this:
The signal that was picked up from the transmitter looked like this below.
I switched the transmitter on and off as seen on the diagram below.
I am not saying that the microphone on its own won’t pick up the signal, it does but is much weaker. The picked up signal is enhanced by the TV.
So from the above a radio frequency entering the home will find its way to all the electrical gadgets. If carefully monitored they can be played out. A radio does it well when it is coming from a radio station, but it comes high hertzs and needs to be processed down to be heard, but one coming from an unknown transmitter and within the range of the human psyche can be picked up with a microphone if it is coupled with some gadgets at home. If the Radio Signal was designed for the human ear you would have heard it. But you go around it and find it with some jingle jangle puzzle of this and that so you can hear it: you make the unseen visible.
signal with no tv signal with TV
Now this: If the TV picks up this signal and is manifested by the microphone then in a sort of roundabout way a signal from a transceiver can come into your home and also leave with some information. It just needs to find your electrical gadgets that will act as listening devices. An indoor TV aerial will also help as this will help enhance the whole process. Your kettle and helps if it is a metallic one. The refrigerator. The wiring in your home. Now if you send one top down from above you in the sky, this will grid connect all the homes in the area. Now if you are living close to electrical railway lines, or better still a hub of lines, this will enhance all the properties in its locality together with the street lights as a superconducting lattice, a hub of sorts, all grid-up as a superstructure single entity listening device, and you filter what you need to listen to. You know the interesting conversations, not the shopping lists for the week.
?I Don’t Know What To Make of This? or if there is anything in it?
It is just the artist in me looking for a pattern.
“Kalichakra”
“untimebound”
ps and by the way, watch out for the “fade out”. You can become as a result of these. See if you can guess what is said. Using in-ear buds helps. Also keep the volume down very low at first for guessing and then increase the volume to see if you got it right.